OLIVER STUENKEL
In Brazil, the highly divisive government led by President Jair Bolsonaro is merely the symptom of a longer pattern of polarization that has severely hampered the country’s response to the pandemic.
Published February 17, 2021
https://carnegieendowment.org/2021/02/17/brazil-s-polarization-and-democratic-risks-pub-83783
Polarization in Brazil has become a major risk not only to the country’s democracy but also to its capacity to address its most urgent policy challenges such as the coronavirus pandemic. By first promoting a lockdown-versus-economy narrative that weakened the country’s willingness to adopt effective measures and then politicizing the choice of the vaccine producer, President Jair Bolsonaro’s turbulent administration has become a symbol of how destructive polarization can be. How did Brazil arrive at this troubled state?
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